Of particular note is Effectiveness of the Parrot Compiler Toolkit, which suggests that an initial port of Python 2.5 to Parrot took six hours and a port of LOLCODE took four hours. These are powerful tools, and they're only getting more so.

2 Comments

James
2008-05-05 11:35:47

So is Perl 6 going to run on Parrot this decade?

chromatic
2008-05-05 11:53:11

@James, Perl 6 has run on Parrot for months. See the Rakudo link in the post. If you want to try the absolute latest version, see building Parrot from source.

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